Apparatus for forming seats in railroad-ties.



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APPARATUS FOR FORMING SEATSIN RAILROAD TIES.

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No. 758,525. PATENTED APR. 26, 1904.

W. GOLDIE.

APPARA US FOR FORMING SEATS IN RAILROAD TIES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 8, 1903.

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UNTTEn STATES Patented April 26, 1904.

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APPARATUS FOR FORMING SEATS IN RAILROAD-TIES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N0. 7 58,525, dated April26, 1904.

Application filed January 8, 1903.

To a, w/wm it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM GOLDIE, a resident of. Wilkinsburg, in thecounty of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Apparatus for Forming Seats in Railroad-Ties; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof.

My invention relates to the cutting of seats or kerfs in railroadcross-ties to receive the rails, its object being to provide for thecheap laying of new track-to exact gage or for the relaying of old railsor for reinforcements of the same, such as when it is desired to stiffenthe track by the employment of supporting base-bars or bridge-pieces orfor bringing the track itself to perfect alinement or surface. Inapplications filed November 19, 1902, Serial Nos. 131,918, 131,919, and131,920, relating to railroad-tracks, rail structures, and rail- Yjoints, one of the features described is the formation in the cross-tiesof transversely-extending seats with grooves or kerfs to receive eitherbridge-pieces placed under therails at the joints or supportingbase-bars extending continuously under the rails, such bridgepieces orbase-bars having longitudinally-depending supporting ribs fitting intosuch grooves or kerfs in the ties or rails themselves provided with suchlongitudinally-supporting ribs formed under the flange.

The present invention relates to apparatus for laying tracks embodyingthese inventions,

as well as forlaying tracks with the ordinary rails, where it is desiredto bring the track to more perfect surface, to accomplish this workcheaply, and to obtain a practically perfect gage or surfacing of thetrack.

To these ends my invention consists, gen: erally stated, in apparatusfor cutting seats for the rails in the cross-ties provided with rotarycutting mechanism guided by one or both of the rails, so that in the useof the apparatus through the guidance of the rails seats or seats andkerfs may be cut in the ties in exact alinement with the rails and ofdepth gaged by the height of the rails, a simple and efiicient means forforming such seats either for the seating of ordinary railroad-rails orthe tie-plates employed therewith or for the Serial No. 138,267. (Nomodel.)

seating of the rail structures having depending ribs or of bridge-piecesfor rail-joints being thus obtained.

It also comprises a car in which such apparatus'is mounted, the detailsof which car will be hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willdescribe the same more fully, referring to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a side view of the apparatus, illustrating theinvention. Fig. 2 is a top or plan View sliowing'some of the parts indotted lines. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3, Fig. 1; andFigs. 4, 5, and 6 illustrate the different forms of seats and railsfitting in the seats which may be formed by the apparatus embodying theinvention.

. In an application of even date herewith, Serial No. 138, 266,1 havedescribed the method of forming such kerfs or seats in the ties andmanipulating the rails to provide for either resurfacing of the track orrelaying of the same with or without supporting base-bars,

'so that a detail description of the method involved is not considerednecessary in this application. As set forth in said application, thepurpose of the apparatus is to form in the ties 2 seats 3, whichpreferably have grooves or kerfs 4 cut in the base thereof to receivethe ribs 5 of 'the'supporting base-bars 6 under the rails 7, the seats 3generally being formed of slight rabbets planed or cut in the topsurface of the tie and the grooves or kerfs I being formed in the basethereof when necessary. As described in the above applications forpatent, by means of the supporting base-bars seated in the seats 3 therails themselves are properly supportedthroughout their length where acontinuous base-bar is employed or supported at the joints where thebase-bar is employed at that'point, and the depending ribs either on thebase-bars, as illustrated in Fig. 4,

or on the rails themselves, as illustrated in Fig.

5, by being seated in the kerfs and seats provided in the cross-ties areheld to exact gage, all liability of the spreading of the track beingprevented. It is of course importantin the laying of such track and inthe forming of the kerfs or grooves in the cross-ties that the seats toreceive the rails shall conform exactly to the curves of the trackitself, and where, as with the present apparatus, the track previouslylaid is employed as a guide for the laying of the new track or for theformation of seats to arrange for the temporary shifting of old track inconnection with the laying of new track it is extremely important thatthe apparatus be arranged to follow all the curves of the old track andto cut seats at exact distance from the old track, so that when thetrack is properly relaid according to the system with which thisapparatus is employed and as described in the companion application,Serial No. 138,266, covering the method, the track shall be brought toexact alinement and to proper height of track without disturbing thecross-ties as they are laid. For this purpose I provide the apparatusshown in the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the preferable formof machine for accomplishing the result, though it is to be understoodthat any suitable apparatus embodying the features herein claimed isincluded.

1 have illustrated the invention in connection with the car 9, carryinga cutter-shaft provided with rotating cutters 10 and 11, adapted to cutthe seats 3, with or without the kerfs 4, in the ties 2 at the sides ofthe rails. The car illustrated has the boiler 12 and the engine 13, fromwhich connections are made in any suitable way, such as by thesprocket-chain 1 1, with the engine-shaft to one of the wheels 15 of themain truck 16 of the car. 1 prefer to providethe car, as shown, with twotrucks 16 and 17 and to form the car-body of two sections 18 and 19,pivoted together, as at 20, and to provide the main section 18 with thedepending frame 21, carrying the grooved guide-wheel 22, running on thetrack and forming the guide for the rotating cutters, so as to arrangeto form the seats in proper alinement with the track. I prefer to employonly one such grooved guidewheel on the frame, the other supportingwheel23 of the frame 21 being plain-faced and simply acting as a support forthe cutter close to the same and to regulate the depth of cut of theseat or kerf formed in the tie by that cutter. By providing the car withthe hinge it is evident that the main section 18 may through the wheels22 and 23 follow the course of the track, and so hold the cutters l0 and11 in proper alinement therewith during their cutting action. Power iscarried by suitable chains or belts 2&1 25 to the cuttershaft 26,carrying the cutters 10 11 and mounted to slide in the frame 21, thedescent of the cutters in such frame being controlled by stops 27. Theframe also provides for the lateral adjustment of the shaft 26, with itscutters, with relation to the frame 21 in any suitable way, such as bythe slots 28 in the guide-plates 29, in which the bearings 30 for theshaft 26 are mounted to slide.

The bearings 30, carrying the shaft 26, are mounted to slide verticallyin the guide-plates 29, being supported by the stops 27. Theseguide-plates having the horizontal slots 28, through which pass suitableholding-bolts,ean be adjusted laterally upon the depending frame 21, andso provide for the lateral adjust-ment of the shaft 26. This isaccomplished simply by loosening the bolts in the slots 28 and adjustingthe shaft to proper position and again tightening the bolts. WVhen theseats are to be formed at greater or less distances from the rails, thisis arranged for by the adjustment of the guide-plates 29, and verticaladjustment of the shaft is provided for through the stops 27. In theconstruction shown the cutter-shafts are coupled, by means of the rods31,with the swinging shaft 32, from which the chains or belts 24 25 passaround suitable pulleys or sprocket-wheels to transmit the power fromthe engine to the cutter-shaft 26. and a suitable lever 33 is providedto raise and lower the cutter-shaft, such lever being connected with thestraps above referred to. The cutters shown are adapted to out not onlythe kerfs 4 in the tics, but also to cut the rail-seats 3 in the surfacethereof, the rotating cutters being provided with suitable knives 37 38on its periphery for that purpose. The knives of the cutter-wheels canof course be changed, as desired. For example, the knives maybe formedto cut simply plain-faced seats on the ties to receive the ordinaryflat-bottomed rails or to receive tie-plates adapted to support therails or they may be arranged, as shown, to cut the seats and kerfs. Forsome purposes it is also desirable to mark lines on the ties to indicatethe exact alinement of the rails when they are to be shifted intotemporary position for the purpose of forming permanent seats on theties in the positions previously occupied by the rails. For this latterpurpose markers 39 may be employed. being illustrated as circulartoothed wheels secured to a separate shaft mounted in the dependingframe, to mark an exact line the proper distance from one or both railsto provide for the shifting of the same into temporary position.

In the use of the invention where the track is to be resurfaced orsupported base-bars or new rails having downwardly projecting ribs areto be substituted for the old rails the custom is to clear away theballast, so that the cutters will not strike the same, and to pass thecutting apparatus along the rails, cutting temporary seats for the railswithout having kerfs formed at the base thereof or simply marking lineson the ties for the shifting of the rail through the marker 39. Therails are then shifted into their temporary position and spiked toplace, and the cutters for forming the permanent seats in the ties areadjusted. the height of the same being arranged by the stops 27, andtheir proper position with relation to the rails being provided throughthe side adjustment of the guide-plates 29, and, if necessary, kerfcutters or knives 37 being arranged on the cutter-wheels. The car isagain passed along overthe track, being either fed forward by its ownengine or pushed by asuitable power or hand means, and through theconnections the cutter-shaft is rotated, and the seats or seats andkerfs are cut in the ties in position to receive the permanent track.-Where the object is simply to plane new seats for the rails or fortie-plates to receive the same, after cutting such seats the rails arereshifted into place either into the seats or onto the tieplates restingin seats and spiked to place. Where the supporting base-bars of saidapplication Serial No. 131,918 are employed, these base-bars are seatedin the ties, and the rails are shifted into position upon thesame, theouter edges of the flanges fitting against the upwardly-extending ribsof the base-bars, and they are spiked to place. Where the object is toprovide for the seating of rail structures having dependingsupporting-ribs, as in said application Serial No. 131,919, the newrails are seated in the'ties and secured in place and the old railsremoved from their temporary seats. Where bridge-pieces are to bearranged simply under the rail-joints, as in said application Serial No.131,920, the best practice is to unspike the rails from the ties onwhich the bridge-pieces are to be located and draw the ties out fromunder the rails and to carry the apparatus along the track and lowerdown the cutter-shaft, with its cutters, so as to cut the seats or theseats and kerfs in the ties so shifted, and then to put thebridge-pieces in place and shift them under therails and respike them.

In any such use of the apparatus it provides a very simple and efiicientmeans for cutting the seats or kerfs in the ties and reduces the cost ofchanging or relaying track, while providing for the accurate cutting ofsuch seats both as to the depth of the same and their alinement with thetrack, since the cutting apparatus is guided through the rails, andwhere the rails are in proper alinement the like alinement of the trackitself is assured and with work can be done cheaply and quickly. In theuseof the apparatus it is evident that Where the tracks are curved it isnecessary to so construct the cutting apparatus that the rotatingcutters or the markers will follow exactly the curves of the track. Ifthe car-body were continuous'and supported on trucks at the ends and thecutting apparatus were suspended between the same, in the swinging ofthe car-bodythe cutting apparatus would be drawn out of proper alinementwith the rails, and therefore the seats cut would not conform exactly tothe curves of the rail; but by dividing the car-body and providing itwith a pivotal connection while proper support for the apparatus isobtained the cutting apparatus is enabled to follow exactly the curvesand bends of the track and in that way to provide for cutting seats atproper distances apart at proper distances from the rails on which thecar is supported and at proper height, so that while the work is donequickly and cheaply proper alinement of the rails laid in the seats isassured.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is"

1. In apparatus for cutting seats in crossties, the combination with therails and crossties, of asupporting-frame formed of a car provided withtrucks and a body portion formed of two sections pivoted between thetrucks, a guiding-frame between-the trucks engaging the rails andcutting mechanism guided by said frame and formed to cut seats in thecross-ties.

2. In apparatus for cutting seats in crossties, the combination with therails and crossties, of a supporting-frame formed of a car provided withtrucks and 5 body portion formed of two sections pivoted between thetrucks, a guiding-frame between the trucks engaging the rail and cuttingmechanism guided by said frame, power apparatus mounted on the carbodyand connections therefrom to the cutting mechanism, and connections fromsaid power apparatus to drive the car.

In apparatus for cutting seats in crossties, the combination with therails and crossties, of a supporting-frame formed of a car provided withtrucks and a body portion formed of two sections pivoted between thetrucks, a guiding-frame between the trucks provided with a guiding-Wheelfor the cutting mechanism having flanges engaging the rail, and cuttingmechanism guided by said frame.

4. In apparatus for cutting seats in crossties, the combination with therails and crossties, of a supporting-frame formed of a car pro videdwith trucks and a body portion formed of two sections pivoted betweenthe trucks, a guiding-frame between the trucks provided With oneguiding-wheel for the cutting mechanism having flanges engaging therail, and cutting mechanism guided by said frame, and another wheelprovided with a plain face resting on the rail.

5. In apparatus for cutting seats in crossties, the combination with therails and crossti es, of a car carrying a depending frame, havin saidvertical guideways and a rotary cuttershaft mounted in said bearings andcarrying rotary cutters formed to cut the seats in the cross-ties.

6. In apparatus for cutting seats in crossties, the combination with therails and crossties, of a car carrying a depending frame, having aguide-wheel engaging the rail and having vertical guideways thereon,bearings mounted in said vertical guideways and a rotary cuttering aguide-wheel engaging the rail and having vertical guideways thereon,bearings mounted shaft mounted in said bearings and carrying rotarycutters formed to cut the seats in the crossties, said guideways beinglaterally adjustable on said frame.

7. In apparatus for cutting seats in crosstics, the combination with therails and crossties, of a car carrying a depending frame, having aguide-wheel engaging the rail and having vertical guideways thereon,bearings mounted in said vertical guideways, a rotary cuttershaftmounted in said bearings and carrying rotary cutters formed to cut theseats in the cross-ties, and adjustable stops at the base of saidguideways to regulate the height of the cutter-shaft.

8. In apparatus for forming seats in crossties, the combination with therails and crossties, of a supporting-frame and guiding mechanism carriedthereby and engaging with the rail, and a marker carried by said frameto form continuous marks on the ties for the adjustment of the railsthereto.

9. In apparatus for cutting seats in crossties, the combination with therails and crossties, of a car provided with a depending frame having aguide-wheel engaging with the rail, a cutter-shaft mounted to slide onsaid frame, a motor, an intermediate shaft connected to saidcutter-shaft by means of straps, and power connections from the motorthrough said intermediate shaft to the cutter-shaft, and a lever forraising the cutter-shaft.

In testimony whereof I, the said W ILLIAM GoLDIn, have hereunto set myhand.

WILLIAM GOLDIE.

Witnesses:

ROBERT C. TOTTEN, Gr. C. RAYMOND.

